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Sapper JOHN ELLIOTT BIGGS

Service Number: 194252
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 19 March 1918

Buried or commemorated at

BISHOP AUCKLAND (ESCOMB) CEMETERY

New Ground. "C." 11.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Biggs, of Escomb Village; husband of Emma Biggs, of Etherley Grange, Bishop Auckland.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

BISHOP AUCKLAND (ESCOMB) CEMETERY
Durham United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 13
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